Documents that survive a serious read.
Confidentiality, non-compete, and IP assignment documents are the ones a counterparty actually reads. The drafting needs to hold up against a careful counsel, an angry ex-employee, or an acquirer's diligence team. Cheap templates won't.
We publish a small set of legal agreements — NDA (mutual and one-way), non-compete, and IP assignment — drafted for US and AU practice, reviewed each quarter, and structured to fail cleanly in jurisdictions where the restraint isn't enforceable. Pair with the offer letter or employment contract at the relevant moment in the hire.
Mutual non-disclosure agreement
A bilateral confidentiality structure for vendor conversations, partnership talks, and M&A diligence.
Employee non-disclosure agreement
A new-hire NDA that runs alongside the offer letter — confidentiality, return-or-destroy on departure, and a paired IP assignment block.
Non-compete agreement
A jurisdiction-aware non-compete with scope, duration, geography, and remedy clauses drafted to maximise enforceability where they are still enforceable — and to fail cleanly where they are not..
IP assignment agreement
A standalone IP assignment agreement — assignment of inventions and work product, moral-rights waiver where applicable, pre-existing IP carve-outs, and a clean separation from the employment relationship..
What to ask before you sign.
- Are these documents jurisdiction-correct?
- The templates carry US and AU variants for clauses where the jurisdiction materially affects enforceability — non-compete duration, residuals scope, moral-rights treatment. For UK, EU, or Canada, treat them as structural starting points and have local counsel review the operative clauses.
- Can I use these for client work?
- Yes — our commercial licence covers fee-paying client engagements you control. You may not resell the documents themselves under your own brand.
- Why are non-competes structured this way?
- Non-competes are increasingly restricted — the FTC banned most US ones in 2024, California has long banned them, AU and UK enforce them only where reasonable. Our template includes a blue-pencil clause and reasonableness-scope language to maximise enforceability where they remain valid and to fail cleanly where they don't.